San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-05-10
EDITORIAL BREVITIES

1t heartily.
The CastrOville Anvil brings down
its anti-prohibitionist sledge-hammel
upon the prOhibisionist hive Of the Bee
vile Bee and demolishes IL.
The Laredo Times gets In good SEN
tenCe occasionally that sticks. AS for
instance: "The vulgarian Of the States
man can enjoy immunity" etc.
The prohibition craze has struck the
deaf and dumb asylum, at Austin, and
the pupils hold hot discussions arguing
for and against.
The Houston Post is all musical in ex-
preston since the late VOlksfest. Ii now
says that its "towline is always properly
tuned"
THERE are only ten Atlantic cables
now in operation, but each vies with the
other in sending lying messages across
water. The cables lie so deeply that
they cannot transmit unadulterated
truth.
ALL is not serene, even in Washington
county, for the cold water campaigners.
The BRENNAN Banner prOphesies a ma
iority for the anti-prOhibition ticket in
that county.
| MEXICO is teaching Uncle Sam les
| son in the way OF harbOr improvement
| She has closed contracts for a 1900, 900
improvement TO the Vera Cruz harbor,
| and proposes to bid for some of our gulf
| commerce.
| THE Beaumont Enterprise says that
The editor of the London Times has
| been summoned before the bar OF the
| house of commons in the Dillon libel
case" This will be glorious news for
| Dillon, or would be were 1t true, which,
| unfortunately, 1t is not.
The Houston Age endorses the POSTS
| idea that there was no necessity for At
lanta Grady to make an angel out of
Mr.. Lincoln. What do the Post and
the Age think of Beauregard's threat to
make mince- meat out OF JEFF Davis?
The BastTop Advertiser regards
women and wine as the causes of all
crime. 1t would accordingly prohibit
wine. In order to be consistent let it
abolish women also. Had this idea pre-
vailed few years earlier now would
the Bastrop boy have had his bornin?
HAS FOtheringham no redress in the
courts for his long imprisonment at the
hands of greedy corporation IN whose
service he suffered all the terrors of
death, and against whom there has not
been presented one iota of evidence?
The case is peculiarly distressing one.
The Waco Day recognizes and appre-
ciates the disappointment of the San
Antonio Express in not getting the anti
prohibition party on the narrow gauge
democratic track, but does not bank
heavily on the horoscope drawn by the
disappointed.
The Juvenile Ranger, published by
the deaf pupils at the state institution,
is a real readible little sheet. They ap-
preCiate the press favOrs they receive
by noting "almOst all the good papers
are sent to our school in exchange for
the Juvenile Ranger"
The Philadelphia Record notes the
magnificent empire included in the
state limits of Texas; its extensive coast
line, its immense borders along the line
Of foreign territory, every foot of which
is open to the inCursiOns of illicit trade
and says that the exclusion of liquor
could not be effected by the whole
United States army. Correct, Mr..
Record!
FRANK HATTON eXudes specimen of
his fOulness through his jaw, over the
supposed candidacy of James G. Blaine.
HattOn is the MulhattOn Of the republi-
can party. His hat has been three sizes
TO small ever since he graduated from
the editOrship Of country newspaper
in Iowa. HattOn- Hat on NJ ulhsttOn.
The weather prophets were all off
yesterday, as usual. The nOrther lasted
but an hour or two, and while the wind
WAS in that quarter, the rain came down
glOriOusly. AS soon as 1t shifted to the
east the weather clerk changed the COM
binatiOn and the rain was over and
gone. Indications are that the rain of
yesterday was but the forerunner of
some better thing in the wet line.
COCHRAN, of Dallas, late republican
candidate for governor, altered manly
sentiment when he said, on the floor of
the Dallas convention, 81 am In favor of
personal liberty and free, moral agen-
Cy, and not even to destroy the demo-
cratic party, would l act contrary to my
judgment and my conscience in this
matter" That is genuine republican
ism.
AS clear case of logic run to seed we
have this from the Paris News: "Ifyou
argue that prohibition will not prohibit,
then you admit that the people have be-
come so very lawless that law cannot be
made to restrain them. Are you willing
mar county ?" The nom enforcement of
law arises, 10 ninety-nine cases out Of q
hundred, from indifference and not from
lawlessness. Laws are loaded on the
statute books which do not express the
general sentiment and are therefore in
operative. The law that is not enforced
will bring all other laws into disrepute.
The Paris man forgets that public senti-
ment makes law, not law public senti-
ment. Like all prohibitionists he has
hitched his cart before his mule.
THE Fort Worth Gazette apprehends
no danger to democracy in Texas from
the split upon this prohibition question.
In answer to fear of the New Orleans
Picayune as to the result, the Gazette
says: The democrats Of Texas will
stand by democratic cOlors whenever
and wherever hoisted. The belief of the
Galveston News has no effect on the
iealty OF men who are too old now to I'M
learn the democracy OF lifetime. The
democrats of Texas are democrats, and
will ever be democrats, no matter how
they may vote on police regulation"
It is all very well for the big daily of
Fort Worth to lay this flattering JUNCTION
to Its soul; but, pride goes before de-
struetion, and an Over-weening conf
dence in the oOhesiveness of democracy
may be the fOrerunner of fall.
Injection u cures in two to ak DAYS.
Injection will not cause structure.
Injection II lie the safest and most re-
liable.
Injection 2 full and complete.
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